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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Roman military camp. See camp.
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“The name Kastrati is said to derive from the Latin castrum, which is not impossible, for the main road from Scodra to Dioclea must have passed through Lower Kastrati and have needed guards to protect it.”
“The word castle evolved from the Latin word castrum meaning a closed fort or stronghold.”
“For the same reason was a camp or leaguer of old called castrum, as if they would have said castum; because the soldiers, wrestlers, runners, throwers of the bar, and other such-like athletic champions as are usually seen in a military circumvallation, do incessantly travail and turmoil, and are in a perpetual stir and agitation.”
“a camp or leaguer of old called castrum, as if they would have said castum; because the soldiers, wrestlers, runners, throwers of the bar, and other such-like athletic champions as are usually seen in”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“KASTRIOTI derives from Romans military words "castrum" and "castra", which is assumed to have taken from Ethrusts.”
“Not satisfied, we also had a little outing to Chester, because of the Romanness of it I, for one, had been hearing of it for years and years and years in relation to the fact that the Romans left a legacy of place names in Britain and the standard example is Chester, from castrum, etc etc etc.”
“Then came a messenger reporting that the Saxons were in rebellion; they had abandoned all their hostages, broken their oaths and induced the Franks at the castrum of Eresburg, by means of destructive siege-engines mala ingenia and fraudulent assurances, to evacuate this.”
“He captured the castrum of Syburg, rebuilt Eresburg and reached the river Weser at the place called Braunsberg, where the Saxons, who intended to defend the bank of the river, were arraying themselves for battle.”
“And then the lord king Charles and the Franks rebuilt the castrum of Eresburg once again, and another castrum on the Lippe; and there the Saxons came, with their wives and children, a multitude without number, and were baptised and gave hostages, as many as the aforesaid lord king demanded of them.”
“And when the harshness of the winter as well as flooding prevented his further progress, he retired to the castrum of Eresburg for the winter.”
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